They showed sublime indifference to danger that always comes of ignorance.

Ahmed was for running straight across to cut the voyage short, because of the wind that sometimes blows from the south at dawn.

He said it might kick up a sea that would roll us over, for the weight of the Dead Sea waves in a blow is prodigious.
They overruled his protest with loud-lunged unanimity and lots of abuse.

Anazeh continued to steer a diagonal course for a notch in the Moab Hills that look, until you get quite close to them, as if they rose sheer out of the sea.

The old chief was pretty amateurish at the helm, whatever his other attainments.